Director of Strategy & Operations, Navan
3 days a week in office
Travel management company
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Travel management company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To reinvent the legacy category of travel and expense with one of the first enterprise technologies utilising the cloud, mobile, and AI to balance business needs with today's modern standards.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of work experience in high-performing organizations within top-tier strategy consulting, corporate development or start-/scale-ups
- Direct experience executing against a strategy, and scaling it globally
- Strong problem-solving capabilities including quantitative skills and analytical and conceptual thinking
- Ability to build trust with stakeholders and leaders across the global organization and drive results
- Broad experience in leading complex, cross-functional projects
- Self-starter mentality displaying strong ownership and ambition
- Great communication and presentation skills
- Experience in leading and growing teams
What the job involves
- Navan is looking for an experienced Director Strategy & Operations shaping and driving strategic, operational, and organizational improvements across the company in close alignment with the company’s senior leadership
- Partner with Navan’s Executive team in defining and executing the company’s strategy to win in the relevant markets
- Work closely with the Executive Vice President, Strategy & Operations on various strategic initiatives that typically span multiple business units, function and/or regions
- Take over responsibility for most critical internal and external strategic projects across the global organization from design through execution, i.e., definition of project scope, objectives, team setup and work schedule, implementation and ongoing project management, and measurement and reporting of outcomes
- Coordinate cross-functional project teams of internal employees and potentially external stakeholders
- Build and optimize scalable structures and processes across the organization to actively contribute to Navan’s further growth and success
- Lead, build and inspire a high-performing team, setting a collaborative and results-driven culture
Our take
Navan (formerly known as TripActions) is operating in a crowded marketplace, betting against rivals with similar offerings of user interface personalisation technology. Even so, the company's growth has skyrocketed and it has attracted significant investor interest. Competitors cannot match Navan's cutting-edge, AI-driven services, as well as 24-hour customer support.
Since its founding in 2015 the company has seen significant growth in transactions and in active users. Having expanded from its core travel expense management product, it now offers a corporate card and general expenses management, underwriting its customers' short term business expenses with its own Liquid financial offering. Navan has a list of impressive clients, including Glassdoor, Zoom, and Shopify.
Moving forwards, the company is focused on gaining more reach, especially in Europe. As part of the expanded go-to-market strategy, it rebranded to Navan with a more people-centric design approach. It also combined its travel, corporate card and expense services into a single app which is now available to individual users rather than only through a corporate account. This will be key in bridging the gap between business travel and consumer apps.
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Company Specialist
Insights
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back within 2 weeks
45% female employees
-40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Oct 2022
$154m
SERIES G
Oct 2021
$275m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Flexible Vacation
- Healthcare
- Commuter benefits
- Parental leave
- Health and Wellness
- Fuel for Connection
- Pet Friendly
- 401k (retirement plan)
- IATAN (travel-related discounts)
- Connectivity Allowance
- Learning & Development
Company values
- Focus on Users
- Tech-Forward Solutions
- Lead with Context
- Communicate with Candor
- Raise the Bar
- One Diverse Team
Company HQ
Ventura, Palo Alto, CA
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Leadership
Ariel Cohen
(CEO)Research and Development director in Mercury Interactive (and HP after acquisition of Mercury). Product Management director, then VP, at Jive Software. Previously co-founded StreamOnce with Ilan.
Ilan Twig
(CTO)Studied Computer Science, managing positions in software engineering including VP and EVP of engineering at Jive Software. Previously co-founded StreamOnce with Ariel.
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